Help me Obi-Wan Kanobi... you're my only hope!

I'm charles and I have a brand new Samsung Fascinate that is being sent to me as a replacement phone from Verizon. I am hearing that there is no current upgrade path other than rooting the newest os to it. Who has experience doing this and if I do this will the phone operate well. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Welcome to the community. The Fascinate is a very solid device and once rooted you can customize it however you would like. Be sure to check out the thread below on rooting the phone. Feel free to ask any questions on rooting once you start reading up about it. Make yourself at home here in the community.